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March 16, 2002
Welcome to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's weekly news quiz program. Find out how well you know your news by playing the interactive online version below. You can also listen to this week's show with host Peter Sagal.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The INS is the Mickey Mouse Club of federal agencies, but this actually would indicate that's an insult to Mickey Mouse."
That's Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, reacting to the student visas granted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service this week... to whom?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "People thinking that George Bush is bonkers might be a kind of deterrence in and of itself."
That was NPR's own Mara Liasson, speaking on Fox News talking about the tough stance the president announced, to some people's consternation. That Mr. Bush might be just crazy enough to use what?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I never once said I want [Tom Cruise] naked in the bed doing the nasty. I want him to mow my lawn and get me a lemonade."
That was someone clarifying her feelings about Tom Cruise this week, as part of a larger coming-out party. Who let us all know that her much-publicized feelings about Tom were strictly non-sexual?
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Answer 3
Panel Questions
Question 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
President Bush appeared with this week with a group of pre-schoolers in Philadelphia, where he had problems performing what?
HINT: His problems began after a crawl up the water spout.
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Answer 1
Question 2 (Sorry, no audio available.)
The New York Yankees this week released $1 million-dollar-a-year outfielder Ruben Rivera after he did what?
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Answer 2
Question 3 (Sorry, no audio available.)
This past week in Boston, Mass., thousands of people gathered to discuss the terrorist threat to what?
HINT: If they get our futomaki, they have truly won.
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Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
The map analyst's low and he's thinking,
"There's too many undergrounds linking.
Let this news disenchant us.
We'll go like Atlantis.
It appears central London is __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Willie Brown says, "Have you seen Van Ness?
Papers everywhere. Jeez, what a mess.
Might censorship's slash
Put an end to this trash?
I blame the alternative __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Ms. Clinton will tas any show's guards,
And the treasurer's one of the low cards.
But Biden and Keyes
Bring the rest to their knees.
They're tops as the two biggest __________.
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Answer 3
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